Jennifer T. (jenniferthib) reviewed on 6/2/2006 + 70 more book reviews

Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing inits candor, THE PRINCE even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince...a king...a president. When, in 1512, Machiavelli was removed from his post in his beloved Florence, he resolved to set down a treatise on leadership that was pratical, not idealistic. The prince he envisioned would be unencumbered by ordinary ethical and moral values; his prince would be man and beast, fox and lion. Today, this small sixteenth-century masterpiece has become essential reading for every student of government, and is the ultimate book on power politics.

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